Study Finds Antidepressants Increase Risk of Death
From the New York Post: A recent study found that taking antidepressant drugs increases the risk of death by 33 percent. Those who take antidepressants were...
Abuse Survivors Fight for Justice After Police Drop Investigation at Child Mental Health Unit
From The Independent: Survivors of the Hill End Hospital Adolescent Unit in St Albans, UK, said they were sexually abused, filmed during strip searches, beaten, punched and sedated as a punishment.
New Nutrition Study Changes Nothing
From The Atlantic: The science of nutrition and healthy eating is not complicated and has remained relatively consistent for the past several years. However, the...
Psychiatry, Racism, and the Birth of ‘Sesame Street’
From Undark: Chester Pierce — the founding president of the Black Psychiatrists of America — was most concerned about one institution in particular: television.
“Children Today Suffer From a Deficit of Play”
Boston College Psychologist Peter Gray writes for Aeon about the impact of the gradual erosion of children’s’ play in the United States. “Over the...
An Experimental Approach to Psychosocial Interventions
In this message from the Director of the NIMH, Dr. Joshua Gordon announces an increased focus on psychosocial interventions for treating mental health conditions.
"From...
‘Scotland’s Mengele’: The Truth About Dr. Ewen Cameron
From The National: Dr. Ewen Cameron's horrific CIA-funded experiments at a Canadian psychiatric hospital in the 1950s and '60s informed brutal torture techniques now used around the world.
Horrific Deaths, Brutal Treatment: “Mental Illness” in America’s Jails
From The Virginian-Pilot: "The Virginian-Pilot tracked the cases of 404 people with mental illness who have died in America’s jails since 2010. The total...
“In the Gun Debate, Mental Illness Doesn’t Predict Dangerousness”
Massachusetts State Representative Paul Heroux' Huffington Post blog concludes that "We need to realize that high-profile events are high-profile because they are unlikely. And trying to...
Lancet: Let’s Stop Fighting, Assume the Best about Psychiatrists’ Intentions
If there is one downside to the field of mental health, declares an editorial in The Lancet Psychiatry, "it is the failure of pleasant,...
4 Reasons Gratitude is Good for You
From USA Today: Gratitude has been shown to have both physical and mental health benefits. Here are a few ways to cultivate our feelings of gratitude...
1 in 12 Kids on Mult. Meds. at Risk for a Major Drug Interaction:...
From ABC News: "Among those using multiple medications, one in 12 was at risk for a major drug interaction, and the vast majority of...
“The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry”
Scientific American says of Gary Greenburg's The Book of Woe "This is a landmark book about a landmark book . . . a picture so...
“The ‘Still Face’ Video Still Packs an Emotional Wallop”
ACES Too High, the blog about Adverse Childhood Experiences, recalls the excruciating experiment and films concerning the impact of childhood neglect. A one-year-old baby...
“Stop Calling Trump ‘Crazy.’ It Demeans Those With Mental Illness.”
Patrick Kennedy writes in the Washington Post "we ought to stop casually throwing around terms like 'crazy' in this campaign and our daily lives. The president of...
State Bans on Conversion Tx for Gay Minors Gain Ground
From MedPage Today: "AUSTIN, Texas -- More than a dozen states have passed laws banning 'conversion therapy' for minors who are gay, and more may...
Critics Push WHO to Remove Transgender from List of Mental Illnesses
The World Health Organization (WHO) currently lists being transgender as a medical condition and mental illness. Critics argue that the world’s leading health organization...
“Drug Maker’s Marketing Faulted in a Woman’s Death”
From Matthew Orr at STAT: “There was a stranger waiting for Sarah Fuller when she visited her doctor to discuss switching medications for her...
Homogenization of Psychotherapy and Counseling
In this piece for Transcend Media Service, Dr. Anthony J. Marsella critiques the standardization of mental health treatment, arguing that it overlooks cultural and individual...
“Depressed? Look For Help From A Human, Not A Computer”
NPR reports on study, published in BMJ, that found computer-assisted therapy to be no more effective than care provided by a primary care doctor. "We do still need the human touch or the human interaction, particularly when people are depressed."
“Brain Imaging Research is Often Wrong. This Researcher Wants to Change That”
Julia Belluz at Vox interviews Russ Poldrack, the director of the Center for Reproducible Neuroscience, on recent efforts to “clean up the house of...
Videos from Trial Over Generic Paxil-Induced Suicide
The trial of Dolin v. GlaxoSmithKline over the alleged paroxetine-induced suicide of Stewart Dolin recently began. Click the following links for video depositions of...
The Invisible Memories That Shape Our Lives
From PsychAlive/Lisa Firestone, PhD: Implicit memories are unconscious, bodily memories that, when triggered in the present, do not seem like they are coming from the past.
“What Do Scientific Studies Show?”
The New York Times explores the problematic nature of reporting science and of science reporting.
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PhRMA Ups Lobbying by 30 Percent This Year
From The Hill: The pharmaceutical industry's top trade group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), has increased its federal lobbying expenditures by 30...
